Bernie Quinlan
Bernie Quinlan | |||
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Personal information | |||
Full name | Bernard Francis Quinlan | ||
Nickname(s) | Superboot | ||
Date of birth | 21 July 1951 | ||
Original team(s) | Traralgon | ||
Height | 193 cm (6 ft 4 in) | ||
Weight | 97 kg (214 lb) | ||
Position(s) | Centre half forward/centre half back/ruck-rover | ||
Playing career1 | |||
Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
1969–1977 | Footscray | 177 (241) | |
1978–1986 | Fitzroy | 189 (576) | |
Total | 366 (817) | ||
Representative team honours | |||
Years | Team | Games (Goals) | |
Victoria | 4 (6) | ||
Coaching career3 | |||
Years | Club | Games (W–L–D) | |
1995 | Fitzroy | 19 (2–17–0) | |
1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1986. 3 Coaching statistics correct as of 1995. | |||
Career highlights | |||
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Sources: AFL Tables, AustralianFootball.com |
Bernard Francis Quinlan (born 21 July 1951) is a former
One of a handful of players to have won a Brownlow Medal and Coleman Medal, Quinlan was an inaugural inductee in the Australian Football Hall of Fame in 1996. Renowned for his prodigious long kicking, which earned him the nickname "Superboot", Quinlan played his best football late in his career, earning most of his individual accolades after he had turned 30. He holds the record for the most career games without playing in a Grand Final[1] and is one of five VFL/AFL players (the others being Shaun Burgoyne, Heath Shaw, Lance Franklin and Patrick Dangerfield) to have played 150 or more games at two separate clubs.[2]
Playing career
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Quinlan was recruited from Traralgon, which was in Footscray's zone, and arrived at Footscray halfway through the 1969 VFL season.[3] Teammate Barry Round also made his debut in the same year, and coincidentally they would tie for the Brownlow Medal 12 years later in 1981, both by that time playing at different clubs.
Quinlan played 177 games for the club, playing mostly at
Fitzroy had an ordinary season in 1980. When Robert Walls took over as senior coach for 1981, Quinlan and the Lions returned to form. He won the Brownlow Medal in 1981, tying with his former Bulldog teammate Barry Round (who had left the Bulldogs too by this stage). He also twice kicked more than 100 goals in a season: 1983 and 1984. Quinlan led a formidable forward line in the mid-1980s with the likes of Michael Conlan, Garry Wilson, David McMahon and Gary Sidebottom. Together with Paul Roos and Gary Pert in the back line, they propelled Fitzroy to their most successful years in the post-war era.
He was a prodigious kicker of the football which earned him the nickname "Superboot".[7] He regularly featured in the World of Sport kicking competitions (a sports program which was popular in Melbourne for three decades).
Playing statistics
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Led the league after season and finals |
Season | Team | No. | Games | Totals | Averages (per game) | ||||||||||||
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G | B | K | H | D | M | T | G | B | K | H | D | M | T | ||||
1969 | Footscray | 2 | 9 | 18 | 16 | 99 | 7 | 106 | 46 | — | 2.0 | 1.8 | 11.0 | 0.8 | 11.8 | 5.1 | — |
1970 | Footscray | 2 | 21 | 12 | 25 | 292 | 26 | 318 | 109 | — | 0.6 | 1.2 | 13.9 | 1.2 | 15.1 | 5.2 | — |
1971 | Footscray | 2 | 21 | 48 | 47 | 343 | 61 | 404 | 168 | — | 2.3 | 2.2 | 16.3 | 2.9 | 19.2 | 8.0 | — |
1972 | Footscray | 2 | 21 | 37 | 41 | 304 | 79 | 383 | 112 | — | 1.8 | 2.0 | 14.5 | 3.8 | 18.2 | 5.3 | — |
1973 | Footscray | 2 | 20 | 20 | 23 | 301 | 83 | 384 | 115 | — | 1.0 | 1.2 | 15.1 | 4.2 | 19.2 | 5.8 | — |
1974 | Footscray | 2 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 272 | 44 | 316 | 80 | — | 0.5 | 0.4 | 15.1 | 2.4 | 17.6 | 4.7 | — |
1975 | Footscray | 2 | 22 | 36 | 17 | 285 | 46 | 331 | 100 | — | 1.6 | 0.8 | 13.6 | 2.2 | 15.8 | 4.8 | — |
1976 | Footscray | 2 | 23 | 34 | 39 | 311 | 83 | 394 | 109 | — | 1.5 | 1.7 | 13.5 | 3.6 | 17.1 | 4.7 | — |
1977 | Footscray | 2 | 22 | 27 | 38 | 311 | 92 | 403 | 126 | — | 1.2 | 1.8 | 14.1 | 4.2 | 18.3 | 5.7 | — |
1978 | Fitzroy | 5 | 14 | 18 | 15 | 198 | 62 | 260 | 77 | — | 1.3 | 1.1 | 14.1 | 4.4 | 18.6 | 5.5 | — |
1979 | Fitzroy | 5 | 22 | 48 | 39 | 313 | 106 | 419 | 116 | — | 2.2 | 1.8 | 14.2 | 4.8 | 19.0 | 5.3 | — |
1980 | Fitzroy | 5 | 22 | 27 | 29 | 325 | 110 | 435 | 123 | — | 1.2 | 1.3 | 14.8 | 5.0 | 19.8 | 5.6 | — |
1981 | Fitzroy | 5 | 24 | 73 | 32 | 332 | 116 | 448 | 152 | — | 3.0 | 1.3 | 13.8 | 4.8 | 18.7 | 6.3 | — |
1982 | Fitzroy | 5 | 21 | 53 | 35 | 289 | 96 | 385 | 108 | — | 2.5 | 1.7 | 13.8 | 4.6 | 18.3 | 5.1 | — |
1983 | Fitzroy | 5 | 24 | 116 | 70 | 268 | 62 | 330 | 155 | — | 4.8 | 2.9 | 11.2 | 2.6 | 13.8 | 6.5 | — |
1984 | Fitzroy | 5 | 23 | 105 | 44 | 228 | 48 | 276 | 121 | — | 4.6 | 1.9 | 9.9 | 2.1 | 12.0 | 5.3 | — |
1985 | Fitzroy | 5 | 22 | 84 | 58 | 229 | 45 | 274 | 127 | — | 3.8 | 2.6 | 10.4 | 2.0 | 12.5 | 5.8 | — |
1986 | Fitzroy | 5 | 17 | 52 | 37 | 149 | 34 | 183 | 73 | — | 3.1 | 2.2 | 8.8 | 2.0 | 10.8 | 4.3 | — |
Career | 366 | 817 | 612 | 4849 | 1200 | 6049 | 2017 | — | 2.2 | 1.7 | 13.3 | 3.3 | 16.6 | 5.5 | — |
Life off the field
Quinlan was picked up in the January 1972
After retiring as a player, Quinlan first joined the ABC football commentary team when they had the broadcasting rights in 1987, and then switched to the Seven Network when they regained the rights in 1988. He worked as a commentator with the Seven Network until 1995.
Coaching career
Fitzroy Football Club senior coach
Quinlan returned to Fitzroy as senior coach for the 1995 AFL season, when he replaced Robert Shaw, who left at the end of the 1994 season.[11] However, it soon became clear that he was out of his depth as a senior coach and was sacked after a 126-point loss to Sydney Swans in Round 19, 1995. It was later revealed that senior player John McCarthy was one of the key voices in having him removed.[12] Quinlan was then replaced by Alan McConnell as caretaker senior coach of Fitzroy Football Club for the rest of the 1995 season.[13]
The Brisbane Lions mascot Bernie "Gabba" Vegas is partially named as a tribute to Quinlan.[citation needed]
Other roles
In 2017, Quinlan joined former footballers Don Scott and Tony Jewell to form a landscaping and gardening crew, doing odd jobs around the Mornington Peninsula.[10]
He has worked as a weights coach with VFL team Port Melbourne.[14]
References
- ^ AFL Tables - Grand Finals
- ^ "AFL Tables - All Time Records - Most Career Games". afltables.com. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
- The Sunday Age.
- ^ Carter, Ron (22 September 1981). "Quinlan, Round tie with 22". The Age.
- ^ Grant, Trevor (2 October 1979). "Quinlan AWOL - fined $500". The Age. p. 42.
- ^ "Quinlan quits". The Age. 13 December 1979.
- ^ YouTube video
- ^ Bernie Quinlan's player profile at AFL Tables
- ^ Cullen (2015), p. 519
- ^ a b Jackson, Russell (17 May 2020). "Meet the gardening crew of Australian football legends turning heads in country Victoria". abc.net.au.
- ^ "1995: Bernie's Boys make Cocky Crows eat humble pie". 18 May 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
- ^ Jackson, Russell (28 April 2016). "The Joy of Six: AFL player-coach feuds". The Guardian.
- ^ "Alan McConnell gives reflections on Fitzroy's demise 24 years ago". Retrieved 25 March 2022.
- ^ Butler, Steve (15 June 2007). "Lloyd can finish with grand total: Quinlan". The Age.
Bibliography
- Cullen, Barbara (2015). Harder than Football. The Slattery Media Group. ISBN 9780992379148.
External links
- Bernie Quinlan's playing statistics from AFL Tables
- Bernie Quinlan at AustralianFootball.com
- AFL Hall of Fame - Players
- Hall of Fame Inductee: Bernie Quinlan on YouTube